Since Trump's election, Antifa groups have begun to mobilize in unprecedented ways, and have thus gained more media attention than ever before. The well-publicized attack on Richard Spencer in the immediate wake of Trump's inauguration is perhaps the most obvious example, but the suppression of Milo Yiannopoulos' events at colleges around the country also mark the presence of Antifa in daily politics. Now it is impossible to view the news without encountering the Black Bloc or other leftists.

A newly formed anarchist project called Audible Anarchist has begun releasing audio recordings of anarchist theory. In order to make writings more accessible to a twenty-first century audience, the recordings are being released for free on Youtube with their accompanying texts.The first recording is of Pyotr Kropotkin's essay, "Are We Good Enough?"

Is there a real difference between the Snowden/Manning leaks during the Obama Administration and the Trump leaks from the intelligence community now? Are Democrats pursuing these intel leaks in a disingenuous way? How should Leftists react? Matt Hall and I.F. Dzherzhinsky debate.

Democracy is not dead in America, but it is dying. And it's not merely because a fascist was just legitimized by the American electorate. Rather, democracy is dying because there are two distinct Americas, and they do not trust each other, and they do not empathize with each other.

Lindsay and Matt Hall discuss the 2016 primary races, including Ted Cruz's selection of Carly Fiorina as his running mate, Donald Trump accusing Hillary Clinton of using the "woman card," and the endgame for the Sanders campaign.

Video games also occupy a central part of cultural transmission, broadcasting the messages of multibillion-dollar corporations straight into our receptive brains. In essence, video games fulfill three primary roles in our capitalist society: escapism, ideological transmission, and alleviation of frustration. But why, and how?

Author and New Atheist Sam Harris recently declared that he would rather vote for Ben Carson than Noam Chomsky because at least Ben Carson understands that Islam inspires terrorism and that the US should accept only Christian refugees from Syria. I criticize Harris's myopic and ahistorical view of Islam and religion.

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